The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-02
PROHIBITION IN KANSAS. |
A sENTENCE OF sETEN7EEN YEARS
FoR SELLING BEER.

Beins Penniiess. stswsrt Must Also Serve
Ont hts Fine or ESQ, 900 snd Costs 70 Sat
isry tho Law-He Says the Judge Could
Net Have Dens DiasrcntIy-An Right.
WICHITA, Kan, Sept. 27.-J. A. Stewart, the
drug clerk In the West End drug store who
pleaded guilty to 208 counts and was sentenced
to seventeen years' imprisonment and to pay o
flne Of $20s00 and costs for illegal liquor SELL
Ing. has already been in jail for thirty.nine
days, but no doesn't feel that he has made
much Of beginning on his seventeen years.
term. To reporter Of the beacon Stewart said (:
Judge Wall gave me the only sentence he
could under the law. and have nothing to say
except that tho law Ia On outrage"
When asked by the Judge what he had to say
that sentence should not DO passed, Stewart
replied, Nothing" In passing sentence Judge
Wall made long talk.
II don't believe that you will be compelled
t. se ~, x your time out but If you should
This y very severe sentence and - much
Ing Judge Wallis own word Tor It, this seven
teen years In the county jail IL worse than Q
marked that h would give him thirty dsys IN
tswsp. woaia hsve to i've three or four 'f lie.
%he re &c ns shS /. to be collected
puzzles tie best q them, Stewart came TO this
s IN ma ss srse car and info for s
extremely sorry for the trouble he has gotten
sfaf Int own 'o os
street but closed up when the Murray law
r. nea u Wo1E T hs ou
tths owners Of these "iointss are to ths eject
pays ther board and also their WAGES While
they are IN jan and furnishes them with coun-
81 xasn sa9 ns' af any sss. has
back wages FOR time he 10 astuaili , put IN. The
SsSss was smpoyer Rad ss
Ssa Ssss ds: ssssss; TIA
ses him " nsp , pss the xtsoF
pardon would be- forthcoming In q short time.
A51stin Acting on this advice. he did plead guilty to
Herman H has acted the s sc sSi s Sth a me-
sstsS the Sooi Il pissdins to more ell than ten
the flne cannot be collected OF Of the property
Ssr IN h saSs ehae as 81 sss R1s 81
Stewards incorporation II he should be COM
PEELED to stay bis sentence outl But II is as
doned in q short time and that he knew this
fact when ne pleaded guiltX. In the mean time
A reporter visited the jail this morning and
found Stewart In his room busily engaged In
doing nothing. He seems much cast down, and
although he does not believe he will have to
stay In the Jail seventeen years, stin he 10 sure
he will be compelled to remain there while
ionSs an EAR sdiso n Sel Ss Beacon says
After darkness had fallen last night penness wretch
who In the employ Of another man had sold beer to the
thirsty residents OF Wichita was to seventeen
years In ths county IA. and 70 pay nns Of 20 200 And
should 30 pronounced at night, Darkness d sym
DSis OF .s rsps .n.em ssnts sns
eQuaed BY that Of the Dark AEes Il Is . sentence
equal in severity to which could be pronounced BY
any the despoc chiefs Of the most ignorant and Do
ness the pail Of which has covered in history ali the
damnabls deeds whose perpetrators the world now ex
ecratss might well throw It's black mantle such
scene. The Judge who pronounced the sentence, the
prosecution who demanded It. and the law makers who
made possible must have a felt grateful for the dark
ness which hid them from st9ht.